I believe these parts provide direct characterization: "<span>Endowed with commonsense, as massive and hard as blocks of granite, fastened together by stern rigidity of purpose, as with iron clamps, he followed out his original design, probably without so much as imagining an objection to it."
The writer clearly and directly describes the character's personal features, as well as his internal motivation for an action. It is opposed to indirect characterization, where we can grasp the character's traits or motivation through his/her actions or speech.</span>
<span>Depending on which passage you are indicating, Ivanhoe is a novel by Sir Walter Scott. It is a historical novel that is published in 1820 with three volumes. It has a subtitle of A Romance. Ivanhoe received a credit that made an increase of interest in the medievalism and romance.</span>
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I believe that the correct answer is B. At the end of my talk about how to make an exciting speech , three people were sleeping .
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